Button or stud.



Patented. May 2|, l90l.

J. CAMPBELL.

BUTTON 0R STUD.

(A plication filed. Mar. 30, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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5017a Z0 attozmag UNITED I STATES JAMES CAMPBELL, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO 0. G. DEVEREUX & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON OR STUD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,730, dated. May 21, 1901.

Application filed March 30, 1901 Serial No. 53,629. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES OAMPBELL,a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Im provements in Buttons or Studs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to buttons or studs of the type known to the trade as pipe-stem studs, designed particularly for use in shirtbosoms and constructed to enter eyelet-holes or buttonholes in the shirt-front. This class of studs has recently become quite popular, owing to the fact that they are easily inserted and if properly constructed are reliably held in place. Among the many reasons which have tended to make this class of buttons popular is the fact that the post or shoe 0ocupies but little space in the buttonhole and does not have a tendency to Wear and fray out the edges.

One object of my invention is to provide a button of this class which may be used with either an eyelet-hole or buttonhole and which when in place will be firmly and reliably held against displacement, owing to the fact that the sliding tube or shoe is sufficiently long to extend some distance upon the opposite sides of the buttonhole.

Another object is to provide abutton which may be manufactured at a comparatively slight cost and which will not require skilled labor in the assemblage of parts.

I attain these and other objects by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a stud or button made in accordance with my present invention, the sliding tube or shoe being partially moved toward the left, as is necessary when inserting the button into an eyelet-hole or buttonhole. Fig. 2 illustrates the various parts making up the button shown in Fig. 1

fragmentary portions of the shank of the button and the sliding tube or shoe.

In said drawingsthe numeral 1 designates the head of a button or stud, and this head may be of pearl, metal, or a setting of any kind.

The numeral 2 designates the post or shank of the button, said post being provided with a cup or flaring upper portion 3. This post is made of hollow or tubular metal and has an opening 4 and a laterally-bent portion 5, which forms a seat or bearing for a sliding tubular shoe 6. At the outer end of the portion 5 a number of slits 7 are formed, extending back a sufficient distance to provide resilient jaws to clasp the sliding shoe 6, as will be hereinafter explained. At the extreme end of the portion 5 the edges of the metal are turned inward, as shown in Fig. 2, and this portion of the button is tempered to render the spring-fingers 8 more resilient. The sliding shoe consists of the tubular portion 6, having a ball or knob 9 at one end, and a headed pin 10, inserted therein to give stability and strength to the tube. The pin 10 is provided with a tapered head 11, designed to serve as a bodkin for entering stiffly-starched buttonholes or eyelet-holes.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the pin 10 extends sufiiciently far out of the tube 6 to form a neck or reduced portion 12 to accommodate the resilient fingers 8 when the shoe or tube 6 is pushed toward the right in Fig. 1 after the button has been inserted in the buttonholes or eyelet-holes of a shirt-front. It will be understood,of course,that the tubular shoe 6 is pushed toward the left in Fig. 1 until the bulb or ball 9 occupies a position adjacent to the opening 4 at the lower part of the shank 2 of the button. When in this condition, the stud may be readily inserted in an eyelet-hole or buttonhole, however stiffly starched they neck or reduced portion 12 the button is held reliably in place and cannot readily become detached.

The modified form shown in Fig. 3 consists in forming a reduced or contracted portion 13 in the shoe-bearing 5 some distance back of the spring-fingers 8, this contracted portion being designed to clasp within the neck 14E of the sliding tube or shoe 6, while the fingers 8 spring into the neck 12 and serve to doubly secure the button in place.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that a button or stud made in accordance with my invention is composed of few parts,which may be cheaply formed, which may be assembled in a very short time, requires no solder, and which when completed forms a strong, durable, efficient, and neat stud for its purpose.

I claim- 1. A button or stud comprising a hollow shank having a laterally-extended portion, spring-fingers formed at the terminal end of said laterally-bent portion, and a sliding shoe fitted within the laterally-extended portion of the post and provided with a neck or contracted portion to accommodate the springfingers at the end of the laterally-extended portion, substantially as described.

2. A button or stud comprising a hollow post, a laterally-bent portion forming a seat or bearing for a sliding shoe, spring-fingers formed by slitting the end of the laterallybent portion and tempering the metal, and a sliding tubular shoe fitted within the laterally-bent portion of the post, said shoe having a tapered head and a reduced neck to accommodate the spring-fingers.

3. A button or stud comprising a post, having a laterally-bent portion to form a hollow bearing for a sliding shoe, the end of said bearing portion being slitted and bent inward to form resilient fingers to clasp the sliding shoe, and crimped or reduced back of said spring-fingers to engage said shoe at another point, and a sliding shoe formed of a tube having a headed pin within it, and reduced portions to accommodate the spring-fingers and the contracted portion of the shoe-bearing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

EDITH M. JOHNSON, HARRY C. CURTIS. 

